Posted on 04/27/2021 7:08:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden will sign a new executive order Tuesday that will raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15 an hour, from the current rate of just under $11.
The new order will be fully implemented by March 2022. The White House said that Biden’s planned action doesn’t include a past pledge to instate a new benefits package into federal contracts.
Biden originally signed an executive order Jan. 22 that directed the Office of Management and Budget to provide him with options for both instituting a $15 minimum wage and providing “emergency paid leave to workers.”
Pressed on the issue by reporters during a briefing ahead of the Tuesday signing, senior administration officials officials confirmed that emergency paid leave was not included in Tuesday’s order but could still be addressed at a later date.
The administration could not answer exactly how many workers would see increased wages once the order is implemented but estimated hundreds of thousands of existing and new workers would be affected.
Officials also shrugged off a question that the higher wages could lead to a potential decrease in worker productivity by claiming the order “would enhance worker productivity and then create higher quality work by boosting workers’ health, morale and effort.”
The order itself mandates a $15 minimum wage appear in all new federal contracts for employees beginning in January 2022, and existing employees can begin renegotiating contracts to the $15 rate in March of the same year. The order also adjusts for inflation after 2022 and restores minimum wage eligibility to guides and outfitters working on federal lands and extends it to federal contract workers with disabilities.
Benedict Biden: That’s his name!
Destroying America: That’s his game!!
A local retail chain grocery store is remodeling their stores. Lots of front-end work. Went from 10 human registers and 4 self scans to 5 human registers and 8 self scans.
They only staff 2 cashiers on weekends and one on weekdays except for dinner rush hours when a 2nd is on.
My local Home Depot runs on self-scan only, except for one cashier in the contractor area and one floater to open a register on a as-needed basis.
The lone hold-out in my town was Sprouts (small chain of local grocery stores like Whole Foods, only smaller, but very very popular). There were always long lines inside b/c not enough registers open.
I needed something there the other day and dreaded going in b/c the lines take about 10-20 minutes.
Good news! They just installed six new self-service check-outs so I was able to get out of there in about 1/2 the usual time.
I can also pack my groceries far better than they can and everything is organized how I like it. I’m sick of surly clerks.
I think soon everything will go to self-service just as it did for gas stations. I don’t know of a single gas station in Southern California where you can get service to pump gas. I’ve never seen one.
Dosen’t WAWA do that now? Not sure, but heard it was order/pay at keyboard, pickup like the old AUTOMATS.
The only place I can see cashiers still existing is very small mom and pop stores and specialty retail (auto parts, contractor supply houses, etc) or high end retail like Apple, Saks Fifth Ave., etc. All big box retail will be almost Exclusively self scan soon
Pretty soon they won’t even need a kitchen or clean up staff. It will be done by robots. We all gonna be eating some genetically manufactured slop in a few years anyway so no need for anything fancy.
Pay and collect your bio-engineered meat burger. They won’t even need windows in restaurants. Just LED screens all around and they can select sceneries.
The line was “badges, we don’t need no stinking badges.” Classic.
From the legend of the Sierra Madre in the 50s. I would never of heard of the line until Mel Brooks and blazing saddles in 1974.
I know this falls under the category of first world problems, but did you notice that the menu prices at every restaurant have almost doubled?
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